Materials List: What Color is Your Air Today?

Each group needs:

  • The weather page from the local newspaper, providing the Air Quality Index. (Most schools can obtain free copies of the local newspaper. If not, find the information on-line at a local newspaper or TV news station website, or at https://www.airnow.gov/.)
  • How Clean is the Air Today? Worksheet
  • Air Quality Index Description handout OR overhead transparency or poster for class to share (Use the attached Air Quality Index Description, Figure 1 or find it in the newspaper with the daily air quality information.)
  • Daily AQI Collection Sheet and Graph attachment OR prepare a classroom bulletin board for class data collection and graphing
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